new haven; we're talking Texas here not Boston if she were driving a Caddy she would have been aquited.
Some darker shade of pigmentation: death penalty
Less than wealthy: death penalty
Act committed with a Ford extended cab pickup: innocent on all charges
boom boom boom
haw haw haw
On point PD money is everything in cirminal and civil courts.
It's so.... ironic (for lack of a better word), that this is the same state that can't put people to death fast enough.
Edgar
What a terrible story. That had to have been devastating to your family and that of the woman killed with your brother.
What I find totally inexplicable is that in the Clara Harris case the parents and a sibling of the murdered husband are testifying FOR HER and asking the jury* to sentence her to probation only!
Some family!
*apparently in the penalty phase of the trial the Texas jury imposes sentence rather than the judge
New Haven wrote:The wife will probably get probation. The women on the Jury will think the husband deserved to be run over by the Mercedes.
I have heard that in Texas, "He needed Killin" is considered a legitimate defense.
What about if she had been an M.D. instead of a D.M.?
Yes, jjorge, that detail about family support for the perpetrator beggars belief. In every murder trial I can recall, the victim's family views the accused as evil incarnate, understandably so. But not in this case. Their belief, apparently, is that the couple really loved each other. Go figure...
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"Hell hath no fury, like a woman scorned".
I'm surprised that the Defense didn't claim the gas peddle got stuck!
This just in:
HOUSTON -- A jury sentenced Clara Harris to 20 years in prison Friday for mowing down her unfaithful husband with her Mercedes, rejecting defense arguments that she deserved no more than probation for her crime of "sudden passion."
snood
While it is generally as you say as regards Texas justice, there are notable examples where the result was different. This first link is about Clarence Brandley. He was railroaded and sentenced to death. His story is very dramatic, very interesting.
http://www.jewdonboney.com/brandleyhome.html
The second link is about a man who confessed to many murders, but was taken off death row by then Governor Bush.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/lucas010313.html
But her sentence to 20 years did not say no parole and don't forget that Al Sharpton had to cancel in San Antonio today because of threats from the KKK.
Joanne: i cant remember the name of that lady last year in tejas that drowned her children (mentally ill)(way wacco husband) anyway do you remember the terms of her sentence?
Right that was in Houston but that is all I remember maybe edgarblythe will know. I do remember they did not allow her insanity defense. And that is Waco not wacco y'all.
In addition to the woman in Houston there is a woman in Garland just east of Dallas that killed her kids with a knife. I think she got life.
ok i was just curious as it was obvious that women was mentally ill and this Harris women was simply pissed.
Andrea Yates. Life, no possibility of parole for 40.
Houston Chronicle
Great PD I meant you not edgarblythe. Here in Tejas they are calling it Murder By Mercedes I expect we will see a movie soon.
